“This sizzles if you like Frank Zappa,” Gayle Zappa says. Recorded in 1974, yet originally unreleased, “Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow” and “Down In De Dew” are from the forthcoming 40th Anniversary Edition of Apostrophe(’) and will be available for the first time on a 7” single.

really hope this is the one, not many people seem to be excited but for me its the one hope it's out halloween, i never pre order or buy CD's anymore (itunes plus streaming) but i will buy this sucker.

The fact that she has actually publicly designated Dance Me This as release #100 is pretty definite. I'm still not allowing myself to get excited about it. This album is a kind of holy grail for me, I've wanted it since I first heard it mentioned around the time of his death. It's somewhat bizarre for me to know that he was working on that album during the first year of my marriage and we've just celebrated our twenty-second anniversary and I still haven't heard it. My sons didn't even exist then and now one is nineteen and the other making preparations for the celebration of his twenty-first. What I'm trying to do here is put some flesh on the bones of the idea of waiting that long.

_________________The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

On the question of completed, Gail does say in that interview that Dance Me This was completed by Frank. This just increases the pain of waiting this long to hear it. What earthly reasons other than purely personal ones (that may even make sense on some level) could lead to it remaining unreleased for all this time?

_________________The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

In that same interview she is also quoted to have said that four of the last albums FZ was working towards completion in his last year included 200 Motels and Transfusion which have aklready been released.

Now, what the fuck is that?

Could it mean that she was referring to the LSO recordings that were rereleased on CD in 1995 and the interviewer being uninformed just thought that meant 200 motels?

I might be in the minority here - but I personally have no interest in Dance Me This Not a fan of synclavier work. It just doesn't resonate with me for some reason. I try every once in a while to get into it - but I wont reach for it on my own.

I might be in the minority here - but I personally have no interest in Dance Me This Not a fan of synclavier work. It just doesn't resonate with me for some reason. I try every once in a while to get into it - but I wont reach for it on my own.

You are, and I feel the same way.

_________________One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

My understanding of Dance Me This is that it is not just a Synclavier project. It has a lot to do with the musical soirées he was holding during his last year. I really like the piece that Gail released when Kongar-ol Ondar died, which I believe is indicative of what Frank was up to at the time. I love the way people make up their minds about this stuff before they've even heard it.

_________________The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

I appreciate the extreme pretentiousness of Zappa's synclavier stuff. It makes me smile every time I hear it. Which is rarely. The best thing about synclavier music is anyone could do it. It's like punk rock. You don't have to know how to play.

I appreciate the extreme pretentiousness of Zappa's synclavier stuff. It makes me smile every time I hear it. Which is rarely. The best thing about synclavier music is anyone could do it. It's like punk rock. You don't have to know how to play.

well, I can hardly imagine, how could some average punk rock musician make music as complex and atmospheric at the same time, as you can find for example on CPIII. I haven't heard anything similar to this (maybe Conlon Nancarrow player piano compositions are sort of) - obviously you have to know, how to play the Synclavier to make it sound as good, as this is.

I appreciate the extreme pretentiousness of Zappa's synclavier stuff. It makes me smile every time I hear it. Which is rarely. The best thing about synclavier music is anyone could do it. It's like punk rock. You don't have to know how to play.

Not really as it is not a playing tool, you need to look at it as a composers tool, and FZ before everything else was a composer and the Synclaivier for him was the ultimate composing tool, I for one cannot get enough of the stuff.

Synclaviers play themselves. That was my point. You don't have to know anything about music to feed the machine. Random tones assigned to instrument sounds, tossed into time signatures at any tempo you choose. Theoretically, a monkey could do it.Stuff like CP3 sounds very random and very edited. Hum a line or two from it. Bet you can't. Not off the top of your head. It's much easier to "compose" that kind of stuff with a synclavier than it is to play it. And only masochists would wanna learn to play that shit! In a way the synclavier stuff is the "comedy" aspect of Zappa's music take n to it's extreme conclusion. That's what I like about it.

Synclaviers play themselves. That was my point. You don't have to know anything about music to feed the machine. Random tones assigned to instrument sounds, tossed into time signatures at any tempo you choose. Theoretically, a monkey could do it.Stuff like CP3 sounds very random and very edited. Hum a line or two from it. Bet you can't. Not off the top of your head.It's much easier to "compose" that kind of stuff with a synclavier than it is to play it. And only masochists would wanna learn to play that shit! In a way the synclavier stuff is the "comedy" aspect of Zappa's music take n to it's extreme conclusion. That's what I like about it.

I've listened to CPIII maybe 2 or 3 times. I won't ever get into it. There's one song on there that sounds like he hit random play and let it go. Luckily there's a at least 80 other recordings that I like.

_________________One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

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